The teen voice of Peppa Pig is paid $1800 an hour, source claims

You mightn’t recognise her face, but if there’s a young child in your life, you've almost certainly heard Harley Bird speak.
For the past 11 years, the UK actress, 16, has been the voice of Peppa Pig, and it seems she makes a very pretty penny for her efforts.
A source tells the Daily Star Bird is the UK’s most successful teenage voice over artist, “easily” raking in £1000 per hour.

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In Australian dollars, that’s almost $1800 - more than you'd find in the average high schooler's piggy bank.

Meet Harley Bird - the 'real' Peppa Pig. (ITV)
“[Bird] is hot property,” the source adds.
“She’s also difficult to replace as she’s mature enough to be a great actress, but still has the distinctive voice families around the world know as Peppa.”The Daily Star claims Bird’s role on the enormously popular animated children’s series has set her up to be a millionaire by the time she’s 21.

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It’s not exactly surprising, given just how many lounge rooms she’s beamed into around the world each day.
On a recent episode of This Morning, Bird joked that even her school teachers can’t escape her distinctive voice (and that even more distinctive snort).
“I get that a lot, they say, ‘It’s enough having you at school, but you can’t start coming into my house!’” she told hosts Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield.

Parents around the world are all too familiar with Peppa Pig's voice. (Entertainment One)
“They’re just hearing me everywhere.”

Bird auditioned to be the voice of Peppa - a four-year-old pig - at the ripe old age of five, before she could even read a script.
“[The producers] used to read the lines out to me, and I used to have to copy them back,” she recalled.
More than a decade on, the teenager feels confident to share her views on her on-screen counterpart’s actions and storylines in the series.
“I really understand the character, I understands how she speaks, how she’d do things, how she’d react,” she said.